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OpenKylin becomes China's 1st open-source desktop operating system (OpenKylin 1.0 released)

OpenKylin becomes China's 1st open-source desktop operating system

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-07-05/OpenKylin-becomes-China-s-1st-open-source-desktop-operating-system-1lcms33vj7G/index.html

It signifies that China can lead the development of an independent operating system, says the head of the OpenKylin community.

Website: https://www.openkylin.top/index-en.html

Git repositories: https://gitee.com/openkylin

I haven't tried it myself yet but I might give it a spin since it has a unique Desktop environment.

18 comments

polskilumalo

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I think you are forgetting someone 👀

Still won't make me abandon my ~~Stalinist~~ Stallmanist lifestylism 😤

knfrmity

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Deepin is Debian based. The linked article says OpenKylin was made from scratch - whatever that actually means.

polskilumalo

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Well LFS has been written by people all over the world, and the source code too. So I wouldn't agree with it being the 1st. It ciertanly is Chinese though, just like deepin.

Also it's nice to see them reach 1.0

relay

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Well I did hear that the scratch programming language was turing complete.

Tidal_Tempest

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Correct me if I'm wrong but I've read that OpenKylin is Ubuntu based somehow.

FuckBigTech347

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From my so far limited experience of playing around with it for 30 minutes in a QEMU KVM, it does use the apt package manager but a quick look at /etc/apt/sources.list tells that they use their own repositories. Looking through the repositories of what they have to offer it seems that they aren't just mirrors from another distro but actually maintain their own packages and port some Ubuntu packages. A look through their Kernel Config zcat /proc/config.gz tells that they compile their own custom Kernel as well. Also it doesn't use snap at all, but they do offer it in their repositories. And for some reason there is dockerd/containerd pre-installed and pre-configured on the base System. My guess would be that they use docker for the Mobile apps, but I can't verify this right now since every time I try to install a Mobile app from the Software Store it tells me that I can't run a VM inside a VM. And unfortunately I don't have some spare Hardware to test at hand atm.

To answer your question; It seems like an independent distro utilizing the apt package manager and porting some Ubuntu packages. But I can't say for sure, since all of the documentation on their git repositories is written in mandarin.

Tidal_Tempest

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It seems like an independent distro utilizing the apt package manager and porting some Ubuntu packages.

Yeah, probably it just uses the tools like apt that also ubuntu uses. Though there is a Linux Youtuber who said "since the word "ubuntu" appears in the grub config file then it's not an independent distro", and I don't understand his logic, OpenSUSE uses rpms like Fedora but is considered independent. 🤔

FuckBigTech347

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I just copied the title from CGTN minus the text in the parenthesis.

Still won’t make me abandond my Stalinist Stallmanist lifestylism

Same.

polskilumalo

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Yeah I know, I've realized after clicking on it and found who's really misleading. Let's just consider that my comment addresses CGTN and not you xd

savoy

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It's great to see AES countries beginning to adopt Linux and FOSS, even if it's approached less from an ideological standpoint of FOSS == socialism and more from staying away from proprietary Western technology (Microsoft, Apple). If it's solely the latter, that's still the correct course of action.

"What's happening to Russian open-source developers gave a warning sign to Chinese developers," one user commented on knowledge-sharing website Zhihu.com, referring to many software makers being blocked from the open-source community just because they are Russian or not supporting Ukraine. "Software without borders is just a dream that will never come true, and China needs to build its own open-source community." ... "This new version signifies that we have gained the ability to lead the OS' development by ourselves," Zhu said. "I hope more users will try our new version and give us feedback."

This is great to hear!

Comprehensive49

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Hopefully they can get the OS to work on Chinese-made RISC-V chips, so the entire ecosystem can stay in-house without any Western licensing.

FuckBigTech347

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It claims to support the VisionFive2 SBC/JH7110 SoC which is made by StarFive.

TCB13

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At least, unlike GNOME, they got the font rendering, the spacing across icons and the desktop icons right. lol

thefreepenguinalt

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Deepin?

JTurtle

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i havent verified for myself but i believe Deepin has proprietary components that make it not "truly" open-source like Kylin. or at least that's what ive heard.

thefreepenguinalt

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also, i heard a lib say "if u use deepin u sold your soul to the seeseepee"

cass

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IIRC, Cuba also embraced FOSS to an extent.

I legit put a defense of it on a communist youth pamphlet we targeted toward the Compsci center. All countries that want any tech sovereignty should build FOSS stat